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  • set0

    I was basically the Dr strange in my dream last night. I could control the universe with the power of my intent. Might be one of the most amazing dreams I've ever had. Woke up exhausted

    • Now I have to go and wireframes at a deskset
    • -sset
    • Maybe your dreaming nowmugwart
    • Sometimes I get up for work, shower, get dressed, get the train in... then wake up and realise I was dreaming and have to do the whole thing againset
    • I've been having some fantastic trippy dreams over recent months - full on psychedelic Video Game adventures in expansive hypercolour Mario-like lands.detritus
    • Most important thing though - i finally learned how to fly, and stay aloft. All my life my flying dreams have been distinctive in that the principal point is...detritus
    • ...that as soon as I fly, I feel in my gut the secret to the technique, but then just as quickly lose faith and fall. Always and forever.detritus
    • But in my last dream, I managed to make it all the way across the North Sea, and then ventured to the atlantic, at which point I awoke.detritus
    • I'm *just* superstitious enough to want to believe this means something important about my wakened existence... still waiting to find out what though.detritus
    • ^ own your subconscious!mugwart
    • Awesome Detritus. Love itset
  • face_melter1

    The apartment rental situation in Stockholm is absolutely fucked, fucked beyond repair. The past two years has seen a huge boom in residential building to try and make up for the lack of housing - the waiting time to get a first-hand contract for social/rent-controlled housing is, on average, around 10 years.

    I've been looking for a new place recently - secondhand contract ie. renting from private landlord - and the prices and demand is bananas. Enquired about a place in Gröndal, fuckers wanted my entire life story, three references, and my credit score. Like, your place is nice but not fucking CIA black-op levels of information nice, you grabby cunts. Suffice to say I didn't get it. Maybe the details of my previous life as head of an international white slavery ring set off some warning bells. Who knows? Anyway. I eventually found a place which is super nice and only a hop, skip, and a fart from my kayak club and my office.

    The moral of this story - if you're looking for a place in Stockholm, don't, unless you have infinite wealth. Otherwise be prepared for misery and head-exploding levels of anxiety. And don't live in Södermalm - it's a gentrified Mecca for shitheads, that's why i'm moving out.

    • Sounds like NY. Been to Stockholm. I can imagine the prices in Gamla Stan! Area is so beautiful. Good luck! SS, CScore,and 1st born with mini fortune is standarbklyndroobeki
    • d around these parts.bklyndroobeki
    • Gamla Stan is a nightmare for prices. Easily one of the most expensive parts of town.face_melter
  • autoflavour0

    new MacBook Pro arrived.. opened the box, created new account, then spent the next hour curating the stickers for the front before I even really went back and played with it

    missing the glowing apple, but to be honest, makes sticker placement way easier not having to work around it

  • autoflavour2

    biggest regret is I was unable to transfer the QBN sticker a 4th time.. it just didn't want to.. kept leaving the glue on the laptop and giving me the vinyl .. :(

    • I've been temptedmoldero
    • I have 3 left. a black, red, and white one. i'll put one in the post if you want.capn_ron
    • ^ may I please get one from you?mugwart
    • Can has?bklyndroobeki
    • mug and bklyn, send me your addresses and I'll mail one off to each of you. my email is ron@ (my url in profile)capn_ron
    • YAY!bklyndroobeki
  • section_0140

    This dude was in the office and overheard him say his age to someone. He's 2 years younger than me, and I had him at least 10 years older.

    Nice little Friday pick-me-up.

  • sarahfailin3

    i got a foam roller earlier this year and i fucking love it! it's like a free massage whenever you want.

    the other day i got high and was just rolling out for like 40 minutes. amazing.

    • https://media.giphy.…pockets
    • haha pocketsdetritus
    • lol, I have one, I should use it more oftenpinkfloyd
    • got one too—I've been in physical therapy for my upper spine for a few months—my foam roller has been a blissful addition to getting my spine to move / popPonyBoy
    • #FoamRollersHelp

      ...just showing some solidarity w/something I actually know something about :)
      PonyBoy
    • Rumble rollers are even more violently awesome. You also might want to add compression bands and lacrosse balls to your arsenal.Gucci
    • Oh yeah? I use wood logs from trees. The bark really gets in there.cannonball1978
    • The gf's yoga mat wound tightly around an extra long rolling pin works wonders...but yea, something proper would be nicefuturefood
    • https://www.amazon.c…imbecile
    • Haha! thank youfuturefood
    • I bought one too...imbecile
    • U r a catsince1979
  • Bennn0

    I have a pic on flickr thats getting lots of views and like since 3 days... It must be linked somewhere, but I have no way to know where.

    • maybe try google reverse image searchpinkfloyd
    • paste the url of that imagested
    • 4chan?pablo28
    • https://www.flickr.c… this one?sted
    • Reverse image search, or, search the web for the full url. It may take a bit to show up if it's new, but you should be able to find it.mg33
    • Boobs?pango
    • You can find out what links to a page by googling "link:your_url"monNom
    • Ben it probably made explorer look for an email or within the comments for a congrats on explore.HijoDMaite
    • Yep my pic has been added to the group "in explore" by an admin inviteBennn
  • sea_sea2

    Been sifting through resumes, interviewing and hiring people for the past few weeks. Now the training process. I see no end. Drinks.

    • flip a coin! let fate decide!mugwart
    • hire 1 more person than needed. and fire him at the end of the week just to show the rest you mean business!pango
    • ^thispinkfloyd
    • Done and done.sea_sea
    • Lol @pangobklyndroobeki
  • mugwart5

    Blocked my mother's mobile number on my birthday. I used to hate birthdays but now my only family is my GF and my son every card I get means the world to me.

    The world is going to shit. If anyone has family reach out and fucking love their indifferences and challenges they inflict.

    Fuck I hate sounding a hippy

  • sofas0

    "The Swedish word uppgivenhetssyndrom sounds like what it is: a syndrome in which kids have given up on life. That's what several hundred children and adolescents have done — literally checked out of the world for months or years. They go to bed and don't get up. They're unable to move, eat, drink, speak or respond. All of the victims of the disorder, sometimes called resignation syndrome, have been youngsters seeking asylum after a traumatic migration, mostly from former Soviet and Yugoslav states. And all of them live in Sweden."

    http://www.npr.org/sections/goat…

  • PonyBoy0

    Red Sox & Yankees tonight at Fenway...

    We want to go make a day of it in Boston but supposedly there is another North Carolina type 'white protest' scheduled there today. This really fucking blows cuz neither my wife nor I have wandered Boston in over 10 years... and there's no way we're missing that game...

    ... fuck whitey. // :)

    • They're supposed to take over the fucking Boston Common... RIGHT where we wanted to go wander... MOTHER FUCKERS.PonyBoy
    • Saw the news in a deli. Looks like the white supremacist showing pales in comparison to the crowds of anti-racist people. You should be fine.monospaced
    • Yeah... totally fizzled out... people are out enjoying no the city like it was any other day.PonyBoy
    • -noPonyBoy
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  • scarabin2

    last night at the bar i picked this album out of the bin of vinyls and played it on their turntable. took a photo of the cover with my phone because i thought it was interesting.

    today, amazon is -out of the blue- suggesting i buy it. amazon has never suggested i buy vinyl from them before.

    this seems to suggest that amazon somehow knows i was listening to the album last night, which is unlikely because it has never suggested music to me before, or that it knows i took a photo of the album.

    what the fucking fuck

    • Ziggy Stardust and the NSA Photo Recognition Software Licensed by Amazon Prime AI Suggested Purchasing Division from Marsprophetone
    • you haven't googled any detail about the album?sted
    • your microphone and your camera are working for them.renderedred
    • I'm reading increasing anecdata of people having product suggestions from FB and G after conversations within earshot of their phones.detritus
    • @detritus it's real and it works. seriously.renderedred
    • i didn't google shit. so creepyscarabin
    • fast frwrd 3 yrs. same scenario. driving home from bar, at door, what's this? oh just drone-delivered complimentary copy of lp, try it out for 30 days!prophetone
    • They're doing you a favour because it is one of the finest albums ever made. Moonage Daydream sounds incredible on vinyl.face_melter
    • our phones are always recording. There is some anagram shifting through our daily life. I hope you all put your phones in the draw when you have sex!mugwart
    • that and five years, top choons!prophetone
    • a friend was even telling me that they are able to work out where you are in the shops through the sound alone. Hope all this ultrasonic shit is just bluffmugwart
    • one side project it to take out the camera and micorphone chip from my old phone camera. Possibly even the gps.mugwart
    • i have the camera on my tablet and desktop taped off with gaffers but my phone and its microphone? we're screwed.sea_sea
    • This has happened to me too many times to NOT be a thing. I wish they'd just be transparent about it so I can take hammer my phone.5timuli
    • Doesn't bother me. I just laughsince1979
    • Lady Stardust. nut said.
      but yes, creepy.
      sofakingback
    • *nuffsofakingback
    • in b4 kanye westsince1979
    • https://noisey.vice.…since1979
    • ultrasonic shit is not bluff. microphones determine passwords based off of the echoes.imbecile
    • yep - I have experienced this also - 1st couple of times I thought it was coincidence but no - ads based on convos have happened too many times now.fadein11
    • AI is here. The future is now.chukkaphob
    • i saw shit working 2 yrs. ago. sound in particular.renderedred
    • i guess the thought is it's less of a breach of privacy to analyze your conversation for keywords than to film it.renderedred
    • You said yes accepting the device contract.imbecile
  • autoflavour1

    been waiting over 20 minutes to be able to check out to purchase Microsoft office.. normally I would have just torrented, but I thought I should maybe buy some of this shit..

    but if the torrent gets in before I can check out, sorry bill, you fucking people screwed you.

  • autoflavour2

    and there you go.. "You're eligible for special pricing but the system is still being updated. Wait a few minutes, then refresh the screen."

    I did wait..

    and wait..

    and wait..

    and in that time, uTorrent helped me resolve it.

    • LOL.. 7 hours later.. same message. lift your game Microsoft..autoflavour
  • pango4

    Shimmy shimmy shimmy yahhh shimmy yeahh ~~

  • bainbridge0

    I don't have a Linkedin account anymore. Why do I get invitations from people I worked with once to add them?

    • It suggests based on your email. Scary stuff.monospaced
    • Linkedin spamutopian
    • Best thing is when you receive an invitation to join from a person already on your contact list, but on another e-mail address.sr_rosa
    • Linkedin scrapes people's emails - they got caught a while ago and said 'oops! we won't do it again!'
      Fucking lies.
      face_melter
    • lol sr_rosa, I thought I was the only one experiencing thisimbecile
  • since19790

    slept great last night. had some coffee and breakfast
    cuddled w my girl

  • garbage-1

    Piggybacking on scarabin's vinyl Amazon weirdness:

    The missus was going out with friends over the weekend, and I jokingly texted "be sure to wear a condom".

    Pull up an video on my phone a few minutes later and I get slapped with a Trojan ad for the first time ever.

    A friend and I started texting exclusively in Spanish a little while ago, and my ads suddenly hablan espanol.

    [Cue X-Files theme]

    • there's fuckery afootscarabin_net
    • i was having sex w my girl and it sends me condom ads. dirty robot wankersince1979
    • you are all iphone users?sted
    • I mentioned in passing that I wanted swim trunks in a specific style and color, and the next day they were in my feed. Never had an ad like that before.monospaced
    • it's not fuckery.
      your phone mic is listening to everything for key words regarding search and status posting
      imbecile
    • Android here.garbage
    • eavesdroppers; facebook, messenger, etc do not care the platformimbecile
  • imbecile1

    voice based ads won't be smart until they are connected to cc or bank account info so it will stop offering me stuff I've already purchased... nothing worse than seeing ads for stuff I now own two weeks after buying it

    • Or cookie based... same. They kept promoting things I just bought.pango
    • I research a product on Amazon for a long time, purchase one based on reviews. Immediately, Amazon can only recommend that product and only that product.monospaced
    • C'mon, Amazon, you know I literally just bought it, why would I want another one?monospaced
    • I have a patent on this. It was pitched as the anti-recommendation. If someone purchased a golf driver, don't suggest golf driverskona
    • suggest a putter, or long-distance golf balls instead.kona
    • +1. Those ads are the most infuriatingly- worst pieces of shit. I've moaned about as much here and elsewhere before.detritus
    • Or worth. They recommend the same product at cheaper price....after I bought it...pango